Why are we not surprised by the CHP?

The unprecedented opposition that has flared up on the CHP side with the sale of Borsa İstanbul shares to Qatar is striking. It is hard even to call it opposition. It is like a fit of psychological rage that needs to be explained. Kılıçdaroğlu and the CHP deputies seem not to hear with their ears what comes out of their mouths. Anyone who hears them would think that if there has ever been imperialism, colonialism or finance capitalism in the world, Qatar is behind all of it. And Turkey's relationship with Qatar is made to sound like a one-sided surrender to Qatari capital.

This is a treasonously great injustice toward the position Turkey has already secured in foreign policy, especially in international balances, through its great successes. And for a CHP deputy to infer from this relationship between Turkey and Qatar that “the Turkish Army has been sold to the Qataris” is beyond treason; it is an expression of madness, a rage seized in the name of some other allegiance.

Doesn't it seem remarkable enough that all of these fits of madness come as Turkey's successes in every field increase? Yet it is very clear: none of Turkey's dealings with Qatar is against Turkey; all of them are entirely in its favor. And of course in the favor of both sides.

Breaking through the encirclement it has been subjected to for two hundred years on many fronts, Turkey is displaying the most influential, most active and strongest presence of the century in world politics. With its diplomatic and military maneuver in Libya, which was about to be fully occupied in order to be turned into the fortress of an entirely anti-Turkey front, it overturned all the established balances and made everyone accept its own order.

It did this as much through its new weight in international relations as through the new technologies and weapons it has developed in the field of the defense industry. The weapons produced by the firm BMC, in which Qatar is also a partner, together with the entirely domestically produced SİHAs, collapsed some of the world's leading defense systems. In Libya it achieved a great gain in favor of Turkey and Qatar.

Turkey did the same in the Eastern Mediterranean. Facing it were France, Greece, the UAE, Hafter, some EU countries and so on. At its side was only Qatar.

In Somalia, it practically re-established from nothing a government that had ceased to exist, and one of Turkey's largest military bases is now located there.

It was Turkey that rescued Qatar from an occupation that was nearly carried out by the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia 3.5 years ago. In doing so, it showed the whole world that it would no longer remain a spectator to what happens in the region.

Likewise in Syria, with Operations Euphrates Shield, Olive Branch and Peace Spring, Turkey created safe zones on Syrian territory at least the size of two Cypruses. In doing so it waged a separate struggle against ISIS, a separate one against the Syrian Regime, and a separate one against the PKK-PYD, and consolidated its presence there by defeating them all.

Most recently, with the technical and moral support it gave to the Azerbaijani army, Turkey ended a 30-year occupation. Throughout the world, these steps of Turkey have given its friends great hope and an exuberant joy, while increasing the worries and fears of its enemies.

Without doubt, Turkey in the field of foreign policy has reached the boldest, strongest position of its two-century history. While it is experiencing an evident shaking-off, a revival, a growth, it is natural that it gives confidence to friends and fear to enemies. Among those who fear and those who trust, we see well enough who is friend and who is enemy. We see who has taken sides against Turkey in its most just causes and tried to encircle it. In this process Turkey sees Qatar at its side as one of its most solid allies.

At a time when Europeans, the US and the forces of evil in the Middle East are forming alliances against Turkey, Qatar's coming and becoming a partner in Borsa İstanbul shares is a show of friendship that must be appreciated.

Stock exchanges by nature are places where foreign investors run rampant. Countries, if they have the means, buy shares in other countries' stock exchanges, so as to reduce their risks through their external assets and to make their advantages dynamic. The presence of many large companies from Britain, the US and many European countries in Borsa İstanbul is well known. They think only of their own profits, and when the occasion arises they even use this as a political card against Turkey. The latest financial operations showed this. In such a situation there can be no greater gesture of friendship than such an investment by a trustworthy investment partner.

It cannot be thought that CHP members are so ignorant of how stock exchanges work. Their reaction is something far beyond this ignorance. Today, when Qatar is identified almost everywhere in the world with closeness to Turkey, the address of what the hatred directed at Qatar means is unmistakable.

The CHP does not surprise in this matter either. It is in alliance with all the centers of evil in the world and in our region. It is also on the side of all the international alliances formed against Turkey on its way to becoming an independent and strong country.

It has not refrained from displaying solidarity against Turkey with Assad, and with the coup-plotter Sisi, who are the representatives of those alliances in our region.

It supported Hatfer, who commands the Salafi-Madkhalis in Libya, and moreover did so on the grounds that he is secular.

By supporting Hafter, it took its side with the forces behind him, that is, with the UAE, France and Greece.

What is open and clear in this entire alignment is that Turkey is on the side of democratization, opposition to coups, and human rights, while the others are on the side of coups, occupations, massacres and torture.

So, is the CHP in the ranks of these forces of evil in order to be an opposition to the AK Party, or is it opposing the AK Party precisely on behalf of these forces of evil? That is the question.